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Four Western Cape municipalities are at high risk of running out of water.

Colin Deiner, provincial disaster management chief, has told Times Live that R200-million is being spent in Beaufort West, Kannaland (Ladismith), Knysna and Bitou for emergency work.

Further interventions were being implemented in "medium-risk" municipalities.

It is quite a vast area that we are covering at the moment, a number of them I must say are agricultural drought areas...the others are what we call hydrological drought which is obviously the problem with lack of water.

— Colin Deiner, provincial disaster management chief

There are three areas which is, Ooudtshoorn, Hessequa and Kannaland that are both agricultural and hydrological.

— Colin Deiner, provincial disaster management chief

Most of the work that we are doing is ground water exploration... we looking to ensure that everybody has water up until next winter.